AN ANTIQUE AFSHAR RUG, the medium blue field with a variety of flowerheads and rosettes together with angular stylised palmettes around a serrated and gabled brick-red panel with small flowerheads flanking a similar indigo panel with boteh around a string of three ivory hooked lozenge medallions containing floral motifs, in an ivory linked rosette flowerhead border between barber-pole and mill-pattern stripes, a short kilim strip at each end